Re: [Gimp-user] XCF doesn't open even when the preview is fine

[Jehan Pagès <jehan marmottard gmail com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de> wrote:
> On 04.09.2014 02:24, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Oliver Dillenburger <D-burger web de> wrote:
> > > Hello everybody,
> > >
> > > I'm new with a problem that is bugging me.
> > > I did spent hours on a pic with several layers, saving it regularly.
> > >
> > > Today I tried to open it. The preview shows the picture just fine but gimp states I need to open at least 
> > > one layer to work.
> >
> > That reminds me something. Maybe someone on the list or in a bug
> > report had a similar issue, but I can't find.
>
> The issue with the additional zeroes in XCF files, to to an unexpected
> (but apparently to be expected) behavior of fseek?
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730211
>
> Reported for OSX, but there's no reason to assume it can't happen on
> other platforms.

It may be it, but from what I understand by skimming through the
report is that there have been commits to fix this issue, so that GIMP
2.8.14 should be able to recover such a damaged file.
Though Massimo wrote « a simple test to save and load "layers
recovered.xcf" passes ». Is it to say that the user should try to save
his file under another name (just to avoid mistakes), and load this
file should recover its layers?

Jehan


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> Regards,
> Michael
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